From the article:
This is no longer just a debate about the ethics of the NHS helping unwell people chop up their genitals or slice off their breasts. This is about basic clinical competence. And it looks like the Welsh Gender Service couldn’t even manage that.
We know NHS Wales JCC has decided to “pause” all surgery referrals, all scheduled surgeries and all scheduled assessments by surgical providers, pending an “urgent independent clinical review”.
On Friday we were told that the “urgent independent clinical review” is being undertaken by “experienced gender clinicians”. If you’re wondering how independent those clinicians might be, NHS Wales’ Cardiff and Vale University Health Board (C&VUHB), of which the Welsh Gender Service is part, has made clear it remains committed to “high-quality, evidence-based and person-centred gender affirming care“. [my italics]
It is “gender-affirming care” which, on the face of it, has potentially placed unsuitable patients on a conveyor belt to high-risk, and possibly unnecessary surgery. The practice has been re-affirmed by NHS Wales C&VUHB before any outcome of the supposed “independent” urgent JCC review – a review which is being carried out by “gender clinicians”, who overwhelmingly practice gender-affirming care….
This is the only field of medicine which advocates for the removal of healthy body parts to assuage mental distress. The patients for these procedures are unwell (permanently on the verge of suicide, if you believe the campaigners). Even if everything goes swimmingly, its recipients are likely to be infertile and remain on lifelong medication. The long term consequences of carrying out these surgeries at scale are unknown. Yet left-wing politicians and activists keep cheering the bandwagon on, insisting taxpayers pick up the bill whilst washing their hands of the consequences.
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